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South Lee site will be first in SWFL to offer proton therapy cancer tool

The land’s been scraped bare, the brick and mortar will come soon. By the start of 2025, Southwest Florida will have its first proton therapy center to fight cancer. Dr. Ari Dosoretz…
  • December 12, 2022

Penn Medicine, Virtua Health’s new proton therapy cancer treatment center will become first in South Jersey

Penn Medicine and Virtua Health are nearing the debut of their new proton therapy center at Virtua's Voorhees Hospital Campus in Camden County. The $45 million facility will be the…
  • October 14, 2022

Rivera reflects on battle with cancer, being an advocate for proton therapy

Ron Rivera thinks about that day every time it comes up on the calendar. Being told he had cancer is not something he can easily forget. The first thing that…
  • October 13, 2022

Pursuing Lower Costs and Greater Access to Proton Therapy

In the next two years, UW Health, the health system associated with the University of Wisconsin, will be the first medical institution worldwide to clinically treat cancer patients sitting upright…
  • October 3, 2022

Ron Rivera, Other Cancer Patients Forced to Fight for Insurance Coverage of Proton Therapy

For many families, cancer is the fight of their lives, but the News4 I-Team found some are having to endure another fight they never expected: getting their treatment covered by…
  • March 16, 2022

7 Trends in Radiation Therapy at ASTRO 2021

Here are 7 hot radiation therapy technology trends discussed in sessions and on the expo floor at the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) 2021 annual meeting. 1. Flash Therapy…
  • December 16, 2021
Congress Passes Bill to Mitigate Medicare Payment Cutshttps://www.medpagetoday.com/practicemanagement/reimbursement/96116

Improving patient access to proton therapy

From New Hampshire to Alabama, more than 20 of the 38 proton therapy centers in the U.S. are scattered across the East coast. Out West, these cutting-edge cancer treatment facilities are…
  • October 7, 2021
Cancer Helped Ron Rivera Find His Voice, Including on the COVID-19 Vaccinehttps://www.si.com/nfl/2021/08/16/mmqb-ron-rivera-covid-vaccines-joe-burrow-brandon-staley
Second cancer risk after primary cancer treatment with three‐dimensional conformal, intensity‐modulated, or proton beam radiation therapyhttps://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cncr.32938
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